| | Cotton Town: Your Town, Your History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Cottontown tells the story of a manufacturing process that started in isolated cottages on the wind and rain swept West Pennines and ended with derelict weaving sheds and the demolition of tall, soot flened mill chimneys. |
 | | In between was the boom time, when Cotton was King and Blackburn was the weaving capital of the world, when millionaire magnates lived in country mansions and the workers made the best of it in overcrowded, uncomfortable, unsanitary conditions. |
 | | For those of you who prefer a slower pace, there's a trip along the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in the company of a crew and their horse plying their trade along Blackburn's waterway in its early days. |
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